Praxis

Question 1

Satiation

Answer 1

Decreasing or eliminating an unacceptable behavior as a result of continued and increased reinforcement.

Question 2

Extinction

Answer 2

reinforcement that is provided for problem behavior (often unintentionally) is discontinued in order to decrease or eliminate occurrences of these types of negative (or problem) behaviors.

Question 3

Desensitization

Answer 3

A technique used in reinforcement theory in which there is a weakening of response, usually an emotional response, used to change behavior.

Question 4

Passive Aggressive behaviors

Answer 4

Pretending, performing poorly, damaging relationships.

Question 5

Summative Assessment

Answer 5

Cumulative, independent activities that test students subject matter knowledge.

Question 6

The information gained from functional behavior assessment

Answer 6

the cause of behavior

Question 7

Alternative teaching

Answer 7

A co-teaching model where one teacher works with a small group of students, as the other teacher instructs the large group.

Question 8

Station teaching

Answer 8

Teachers divide content and students. Each teacher then teaches the content to one group and subsequently repeats the instruction for the other group.

Question 9

Cooperative Teaching

Answer 9

general and special educators work in a coactive and coordinated fashion to jointly teach.

Question 10

Shared (team) teaching

Answer 10

both teachers are delivering the same instruction at the same time.

Question 11

Traumatic Brain Injury Characteristics

Answer 11

Pronounced inconsistencies in performance, inappropriate responses to situations, and deficits in problem-solving and abstract thinking.

Question 12

Assistive technology

Answer 12

Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially
off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals
with disabilities.

Question 13

Blissymbols

Answer 13

a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.

Question 14

Synthesized Speech

Answer 14

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

Question 15

Augmentative communication

Answer 15

Augmentative and alternative communication encompasses the communication methods used to supplement or replace speech or writing for those with impairments in the production or comprehension of spoken or written language

Question 16

Intellectual disability identification

Answer 16

below average intellectual functioning and related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills.

Question 17

Phonological sequencing order

Answer 17

Listening and rhyming, syllable awareness, onset and rime, phoneme blending

Question 18

IDEA procedural safeguards

Answer 18

Procedural safeguards notice, Parent participation, Access to educational records, Confidentiality of information, Informed consent (or parental consent), Prior written notice, Understandable language, Independent educational evaluation (IEE), “Stay put” rights, Dispute resolution options

Question 19

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

Answer 19

a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education records

Question 20

Severe Intellectual Disability

Answer 20

IQ of 20 - 35

Question 21

SPED Teachers are highly qualified in

Answer 21

core academic subjects, alternate achievement standards, and multiple subjects

Question 22

Curriculum-Based Assessment

Answer 22

an evaluation process that makes use of academic content selected directly from the material taught. This is a form of criterion-referenced assessment that connects evaluation with instructional programs by informing teachers of both student progress and learning challenges.

Question 23

Dysgraphia

Answer 23

a neurological disorder of written expression that impairs writing ability and fine motor skills

Question 24

Receptive Language Disorder

Answer 24

People who have it often don’t understand what others say. They struggle with the meaning of language and may respond in ways that don’t make sense. But their challenges aren’t related to hearing loss or intelligence.

Question 25

Parental Consent outlined in IDEA

Answer 25

Initial evaluation, reevaluation, and an initial provision of services.

Question 26

Differentiated instruction

Answer 26

tailoring instruction to meet individual needs.

Question 27

Psychoanalytic approach explains

Answer 27

disorders resulted from early traumatic experiences.